Basket cover



Sept. 29, 1936. O R 2,055,670

BASKET COVER Filed Feb. 13, 1936 Zea 02's 0.1?(256.

Patented Sept. 29, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

My invention relates to covers for baskets, adapted for holding fruit, vegetables, or the like.

An important object of the invention is to provide a basket cover which is extremely strong, while being light and inexpensive to manufacture. Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a par of this application and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a basket cover embodying my invention showing the same placed upon the basket,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same,

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on line 33 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is an exploded perspective View of the cover, and,

Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view of the cover, at one end of the locking strips.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral III designates a basket, for receiving vegetables, fruit or the like. This basket may be of any well known or preferred type.

My improved basket cover is designated, as a whole, by the numeral II and comprises a preferably wooden hoop I2. Arranged above this wooden hoop are superposed pairs of strips I3, crossing each other, and extending diametrically of the hoop I2. The strips in the pairs are preferably formed of wood and are preferably 1ongitudinally curved with their convex sides disposed uppermost, whereby the cover is spherically curved with its convex side arranged uppermost. The cover further comprises a lower locking strip I4 arranged above the hoop I2 and beneath all of the pairs of strips I3, and an upper locking strip I5 arranged above all of the pairs of strips and extending longitudinally of the lower looking strip and substantially coinciding therewith. The strips I4 and I5 are also longitudinally curved with their convex sides uppermost and are preferably formed of wood. The several pairs of strips I3, and the upper and lower locking strips, are all connected at their inner portions by nails I6 or the like. The numeral I'I designates a binding wire hoop, and this binding wire hoop is arranged above all of the pairs of strips I3 and the upper locking strip I5, and is of substantially the same diameter as the hoop I2 and substantially coincides therewith. The binding wire hoop I I has its material bent or crimped at spaced intervals, affording short locking portions I8, which extend generally radially of the binding wire hoop and are disposed between circumferentially extending portions I9. The binding wire hoop is connected with the wooden hoop I2 by staples 20, which straddle the short locking portions I8 and these staples pass through the ends of the strips I3, I4, and I5 and enter the wooden hoop I2, to attach the strips to the wooden hoop. 10 It is thus seen that the binding wire hoop II, the several strips, and the wooden hoop are all securely held together by the staples, and the binding wire hoop reinforces and strengthens the cover. The wire hoop cannot slip circumferen- 15 tially with respect to the wooden hoop, since the staples straddle the short locking portions. The binding wire hoop obviously opposes the distortion of the cover. Further, the generally radial or laterally extending locking portions I8, permit of the staples having their closed ends arranged circumferentially of the hoop I2, so that the legs of the staples will enter the hoop I2, in or adjacent to the central circumferential line of the hoop, thereby preventing splitting of the hoop.

I prefer to form the binding hoop or strip I! of wire, but I also contemplate forming the same of other material such as sheet metal wood, fabricated material or the like.

In the use of the cover, it is applied to the upper open end of the basket I0 and the wooden hoop I2 is mounted upon the upper end of the basket and receives such upper end therein. The ends of the locking strips I4 and I5 extend radially beyond the cover proper, so that they may engage handles 2| or other suitable means, serving to hold the cover in the closed position upon the basket.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be. taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes in the shape, size, and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A basket cover comprising a hoop, strips arranged above the hoop and adjacent thereto, a binding wire hoop arranged above the strips and adjacent to the first named hoop, the binding wire hoop having generally radial locking portions, and staples receiving therein the generally radial locking portions and having their closed ends extending substantially circumferentially of the hoop and driven through the strips and into the first named hoop.

2. A basket cover comprising a hoop, strips arranged above the hoop and adjacent thereto, a binding wire hoop arranged above the strips and adjacent to the first named hoop and having substantially the same diameter as the first named hoop, said binding wire hoop having spaced generally radial short locking portions, and staples having their closed ends extending substantially circumferentially of the hoop and receiving the short locking portions therein and driven through the strips and into the first named hoop.

3. A basket cover comprising a hoop, a cover structure arranged above the hoop, staples securing the cover structure to the hoop and having their closed ends extending circumferentially of the hoop and. their legs driven into the hoop adjacent to the central circumferential line of the hoop, and a binding hoop arranged above the cover structure and extending circumferentially of the cover hoop and having generally 10 LEWIS 0. EAST. 

